Tiny holes in three fossil clams reveal that by 75 million years ago, ancient octopuses were deviously drilling into their prey. The find pushes evidence…
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The upbeat song “Sweet Caroline” often prompts listeners to sing and dance. But when music therapist Alaine Reschke-Hernández played the song for an older person,…
Gory DetailsErika EngelhauptNational Geographic, $26 We tend to turn away, physically or metaphorically, from things we find unsavory: leggy insects, bodily fluids, conversations about death.…
An ancient bone from a dog, discovered in a cave in southeast Alaska, hints at when and how humans entered the Americas at the end…
And then there were three: A single-shot vaccine is the latest weapon to join the battle against COVID-19 in the United States. On February 27,…
Months before the first COVID-19 vaccine was even approved, wealthy nations scrambled to secure hundreds of millions of advance doses for their citizens. By the…
Within a couple weeks after a first vaccine dose, people are well protected against severe COVID-19, new data suggest. With demand for shots far outpacing…
Since December 2019, the sun has been moving into a busier part of its cycle, when increasingly intense pulses of energy can shoot out in…
Encouraging news about COVID-19 vaccines keeps coming. No unusual safety issues arose during the first month of vaccination, when 13.8 million doses of the Pfizer…
By normal standards, the design for a new laser is a total dud. Rather than producing a crisp, steady beam, the laser casts a fuzzy…